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only a brief window of warm weather for females to lay eggs and tadpoles
to metamorphose into juveniles, known as froglets. Cold-climate frogs grow
more slowly than their relatives in temperate areas, but live longer (12 years,
compared to 5 for lowland frogs) and so grow larger. ey're also active during
warmer, daylight hours, unlike their kin elsewhere.
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European common frog range
NGM MAPS. SOURCE: IUCN